Autonomous vs. Independent
Autonomousadjective
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
Autonomousadjective
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
Autonomousadjective
Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
Autonomousadjective
Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.
Autonomousadjective
Having independent existence or laws.
Autonomousadjective
of political bodies;
Autonomousadjective
existing as an independent entity;
Autonomousadjective
of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
Independentadjective
Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
Independentadjective
(politics) Not affiliated with any political party.
Independentadjective
Providing a comfortable livelihood.
Independentadjective
Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
Independentadjective
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
Independentnoun
A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
Independentnoun
A neutral or uncommitted person.
Independentnoun
(sports) A team not affiliated with any league or conference.
Independentadjective
Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
Independentadjective
Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
Independentadjective
Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
Independentadjective
Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
Independentadjective
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
Independentadjective
Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
Independentadjective
Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; - said of quantities or functions.
Independentadjective
Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
Independentnoun
One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
Independentnoun
One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.
Independentnoun
a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
Independentnoun
a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
Independentadjective
free from external control and constraint;
Independentadjective
not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independentadjective
of political bodies;
Independentadjective
not contingent
Independentadjective
of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
Independentadjective
not controlled by a party or interest group
